Who's Your Daddy!?

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At the Republican governors' conference in New Orleans, Ken Mehlman, the Bush campaign manager, answered the question, Who's your daddy party? "If you drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat," he said. "If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and you own a gun, you're voting for George Bush."

-- Maureen Dowd for The NY Times

Ms. Dowd addresses, in her ever wry way, the critical deficit that the Democrats suffer when it comes to issues of national security, and how the Republicans are just rubbing the Democrats' noses in it, locking their arms around their heads and rubbing their knuckles hard on the Democrats' skulls with smiles of Satanic glee.

"Of all the images I saw on a short visit to Iraq last week, two stand out in my mind. One was a display that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Sunni Triangle, prepared for the visiting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers. It was a table covered with defused roadside bombs made from cellphones wired to explosives. You just call the phone's number when a U.S. vehicle goes by and the whole thing explodes. The table was full of every color and variety of cellphone-bomb you could imagine. I thought to myself that if there is a duty-free electronics store at the gates of hell, this is what the display counter looks like."

-- Thomas L. Friedman for The NY Times

And Mr. Friedman gives us an illustration of why national security issues and toughness are accorded such a premium these days. Talk about reaching out and touching someone!

( Dowd's column )

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Who's Your Daddy!?

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At the Republican governors' conference in New Orleans, Ken Mehlman, the Bush campaign manager, answered the question, Who's your daddy party? "If you drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat," he said. "If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and you own a gun, you're voting for George Bush."

-- Maureen Dowd for The NY Times

Ms. Dowd addresses, in her ever wry way, the critical deficit that the Democrats suffer when it comes to issues of national security, and how the Republicans are just rubbing the Democrats' noses in it, locking their arms around their heads and rubbing their knuckles hard on the Democrats' skulls with smiles of Satanic glee.

"Of all the images I saw on a short visit to Iraq last week, two stand out in my mind. One was a display that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Sunni Triangle, prepared for the visiting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers. It was a table covered with defused roadside bombs made from cellphones wired to explosives. You just call the phone's number when a U.S. vehicle goes by and the whole thing explodes. The table was full of every color and variety of cellphone-bomb you could imagine. I thought to myself that if there is a duty-free electronics store at the gates of hell, this is what the display counter looks like."

-- Thomas L. Friedman for The NY Times

And Mr. Friedman gives us an illustration of why national security issues and toughness are accorded such a premium these days. Talk about reaching out and touching someone!

( Dowd's column )

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